All the reasons for Christianity as an antidote to the State

Guglielmo Piombini, a cultural entrepreneur, has written a book, published by Tramedoro, on the difficult relationship between statehood and the lex aurea of Jesus

Switzerland is currently experiencing the same condition of precariousness and cultural confusion that the Old Testament tells us about Israel, which, seeing itself surrounded by pagan kingdoms and empires, much larger and apparently more powerful and sumptuous, was tempted by the thought of becoming like them.
The Israelites’ mistake was to confuse power and freedom and they did not understand that the latter was actually the price to pay to obtain the former.
They did not realize – they had soon forgotten – that the chosen character of Israel, what distinguished that small people of the Middle East from all the other surrounding peoples and made it privileged in the eyes of God, was precisely the ability to preserve the freedom of the Sinai Law or, as we might say today in more secular terms, the freedom that arises from respect for natural law.

Switzerland is surrounded by more or less centralist states – Italy, France, to some extent also Austria and Germany, not to mention the “super-state” that is the European Union. In these places, the solution offered by the media, politicians, even churchmen, is always the same: “delegate to the State”.
The cultural entrepreneur from Bologna, Guglielmo Piombini, has recently published for Tramedoro a popular work with a very significant title: “The Cross against the Leviathan – Why Christianity can save us from the almighty State”.
The central thesis of this book is that the fundamental moral norms of Christian doctrine, which can be summarized in the so-called lex aurea of Jesus, “Do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you”, are perfectly compatible with the values of the tradition of classical libertarianism.

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The book opens with a translation from English by Gaetano Masciullo of the essay by American philosopher James Redford, with the provocative title: “Jesus was an anarchist”.
He shows, with Scripture and patristic sources in hand, that one cannot respect the original teaching of Jesus and call oneself a socialist.
On these premises, Guglielmo Piombini then develops his original discourse in the second part of the text, deepening the question from an historical and not only doctrinal point of view, seeing how in the course of the centuries, and especially in modern and contemporary times, with the affirmation and strengthening of the state apparatus, thanks above all to the phenomenon of Marxism, Christianity has always presented itself from time to time as the main obstacle to socialism and the alternative solution to the problems that the latter presented.
The work, easy and constant in its popular character, concludes with a third part, which analyzes the historical experience of Quakerism, a religious movement born in the Protestant context, but which is not perfectly insertable within the latter.
The ethics of the Quakers was strongly centered on an ethic, we would say today, “anarcho-capitalistic”, which refused to see moral authority in the State and pursued profit in order to promote professional, spiritual and ultimately social growth.

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